NormConf: The Normcore Tech Conference

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2022-12-15

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  • Thursday, 15 Dec 2022
  • Online
  • Cost: FREE
  • 12:30 UTC - 04:00 UTC
  • 07:30 EST - 23:00 EST
  • Full schedule

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🗓️ Schedule 🗓️

Session 1

UTC EST PDT JST Speaker Talk Title Transcript
12:30 7:30 AM 4:30 AM 21:30 Keynote
13:00 8:00 AM 5:00 AM 22:00 Group-by statements that save the day
13:30 8:30 AM 5:30 AM 22:30 Five semesters of linear algebra and all I do is solve Python dependency problems
14:00 9:00 AM 6:00 AM 23:00 NLP tips and tricks
14:30 9:30 AM 6:30 AM 23:30 How small can I get that Docker container?
15:00 10:00 AM 7:00 AM 00:00 Spark horror stories from the field
15:30 10:30 AM 7:30 AM 00:30 Geriatric data science: life after senior
16:00 11:00 AM 8:00 AM 01:00 A Game of Construction
16:30 11:30 AM 8:30 AM 01:30 Hack your way to a better API
 

Session 2

UTC EST PDT JST Speaker Talk Title Transcript
17:00 12:00 PM 9:00 AM 02:00 What's the simplest possible thing that might work, and why didn't you try that first?
17:30 12:30 PM 9:30 AM 02:30 It's all about cost: how to think about machine learning products
18:00 1:00 PM 10:00 AM 03:00 ML doesn't always replace rules, sometimes they work together
18:30 1:30 PM 10:30 AM 03:30 All my machine learning problems are actually data management problems
19:00 2:00 PM 11:00 AM 04:00 Three cheers for OpenAPI 3
19:30 2:30 PM 11:30 AM 04:30 Ethan Rosenthal and the M1 misadventure
20:00 3:00 PM 12:00 PM 05:00 Data is the new o̶i̶l̶ coffee
20:30 3:30 PM 12:30 PM 05:30 How to translate to PM speak and back
21:00 4:00 PM 1:00 PM 06:00 Tracer bullets + working backwards: simple framework for solving problems
21:30 4:30 PM 1:30 PM 06:30 When not to use SQL
 

Session 3

UTC EST PDT JST Speaker Talk Title Transcript
22:00 5:00 PM 2:00 PM 07:00 ☕ Coffee/Nutella Break 🌰🍫 ☕ Take a break! 🍵🚽
22:30 5:30 PM 2:30 PM 07:30 Building an HTTPS Model API for Cheap: AWS, Docker, and the Normconf API
23:00 6:00 PM 3:00 PM 08:00 Data's desire paths: shortcuts and lessons from industrial recommender systems
23:30 6:30 PM 3:30 PM 08:30 How many folds is too many? Efficient simulation for everyday ML decisions
00:00 7:00 PM 4:00 PM 09:00 The zen of tedium
00:30 7:30 PM 4:30 PM 09:30 Data ethics: the non-sexy parts
01:00 8:00 PM 5:00 PM 10:00 How should I represent the intermediate thing? Python data objects for normcore ML
01:30 8:30 PM 5:30 PM 10:30 I'd have written a shorter solution but I didn't have the time
02:00 9:00 PM 6:00 PM 11:00 The physics of data
02:30 9:30 PM 6:30 PM 11:30 Just use one big machine for model training and inference
03:00 10:00 PM 7:00 PM 12:00 Data-Driven promotions
03:30 10:30 PM 7:30 PM 12:30 Don't do invisible work

⚡️ Lightning Talks ⚡️

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Speaker Talk Title
Minimizing the Cost Function in Data Projects
(or, Keep it Simple, Stupid)
Qualify: The SQL Filtering Pattern You Never Knew You Needed
Intro to PDF Text & Table Extraction
Config files for fast and reproducible ML experiments
You Don't Need ML for That Problem
Toss that(model) in an endpoint
Dull, Dry and Indispensable:
Documentation Do's and Don'ts for Data Scientists
Why Are You The Way That You Are: Sklearn Quirks
A Case for Beauty in IT
Have you tried rubbing a hash on it?
Alaska challenged my preconceived notions of storing sunset data
How to Make Six Figures an Hour
How to name files like a normie
IPython Profiles: Big Bag o’ Functionality
Trying to convince academics to use git
The Accuracy is Too Damn High!
Model Evaluation in COBOL
The night I accidentally killed a Kubernetes service
and realized 3 days later
Metrics Are Born at Sea But Stored In the Cloud
random.randint(5, 12) lessons I learned
as a Data Scientist in 5 years in industry
Much Ado About Nothing
Everything is on fire and you get to contribute
Is "Data Happiness" even Possible?
A tale of Product Analytics as a Product
Data Science Intake Forms
PyScript: Run Python in your HTML
How to stop crying when using Matplotlib
Hell is other people's bugs
Putting Git's commit hash in __version__, two ways
Data goalie: keeping pucks out of the net
Persistent SSH Sessions w/ tmux
Hotkeys for Spreadsheets Cookbook
Practical Solutions from CTRL-Arrow, to F4

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📖 About 📖

NormConf is the tech conference about all the stuff that matters in data and machine learning, but doesn't get the spotlight.

It was once said that a single tweet could launch a thousand ships, and so it was for NormConf:

What if there were a conference about all the mundane, behind-the-scenes, how-the-sausage-is-made, middlebrow, unsexy, normcore stuff in the data and ML parts of the tech world?

We thought there should be!

NormConf: The Normcore Tech Conference

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